UPSC Civil Services Examination – 2018 (CSE – 2018)

Introduction

The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a national-level competitive examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for recruitment of public servants in officer cadre. The exam is used for recruiting officers to various departments in the country, including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) among others. Civil Services Exam 2018 will be held in three phases –a preliminary examination which is a written test and consists of two objective-type papers, the main examination consisting of nine papers of conventional (essay) type and lastly, a personality test or interview. The application forms for Civil Services Exam 2018 will be released on 7th February 2018.

Civil Services Exam 2018: List of Services

The following are the list of services which one gets on qualifying the UPSC Civil Services Exam 2018:

All India Services

Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Indian Police Service (IPS).

Indian Foreign Service (IFS).

Central Services (Group A)

Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS).

Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS).

Indian Corporate Law Service (ICLS).

Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS).

Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES).

Indian Information Service (IIS).

Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS).

Indian Post & Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TAFS).

Indian Postal Service (IPoS).

Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS).

Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS).

Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS).

Indian Revenue Service (IRS-IT).

Indian Revenue Service (IRS-C&CE).

Indian Trade Service (ITS).

Railway Protection Force (RPF).

Group B Services

Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service (AFHCS).

Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS).

Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service (DANIPS).

Pondicherry Civil Service.

Pondicherry Police Service.

Civil Services Exam 2018 Important Dates

Notification of Prelims

7th February 2018

Prelims Application Form Release

7th February – 6th March 2018 (till 6:00 PM IST)

Prelims Admit Card Issuance

May 2018

Civil Services Exam 2018 – Prelims

3rd June 2018

Prelims Results

August 2018

Notification of Mains

August 2018

Mains Admit Card Issuance

September 2018

Civil Services Exam 2018 – Mains

1st October 2018

Mains Results

December 2018

Notification of Personality Test

January 2019

e-Summon for Personality Test

January 2019

Personality Test

February 2019

Final Results

May 2019

Medium of Question Paper

Civil Services Exam 2018 (Prelims) has to be taken by the candidates in either ENGLISH or HINDI.

In Civil Services Exam 2018 (Main), the compulsory language paper can be taken in any of the 23 listed languages in the Constitution of India. The rest of the papers have to be taken in either ENGLISH or HINDI.

Mode of Answering

Civil Services Exam 2018 (Prelims) will be Pen and Paper based test.

Thus, candidates have to mark their answers in an OMR sheet in Prelims and write subjective answers in Mains.

Civil Services Exam 2018 Exam Date

The civil services exam 2018 (Prelims) will be held on 3rd June 2018.

The Main examination will be conducted on 1st October 2018.

Civil Services 2018 Eligibility Criteria

Nationality

For IAS and IPS, the applicant must be an Indian National. However, for other services, an applicant must either be:

An Indian National.

A citizen of Nepal or subject of Bhutan

A Tibetan refugee, who came to India before 1st January 1962.

A person of Indian Origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka or East African countries with an intention of permanently settling in India.

Minimum Qualification

Candidates should have a degree from a recognized university established either by an Act of the Central or State Legislature or UGC Act, 1956 or by an Act of Parliament.

OR

A degree through correspondence or distance education or from an open university.

Candidates who have appeared in an examination on the passing of which they would be educationally qualified fulfill one of the above points.

Candidates who have passed the final exam of the MBBS degree but have not yet completed an internship.

Candidates who have passed the final exam of ICAI, ICSI, and ICWAI.

A degree from any foreign university recognized by the Association of Indian Universities

Age Limit

Applicant should have attained at least 21 yearsof age on or before 31st August 2018. However, he/she must not exceed the upper limit of 32 years on 31st August 2018.

Age relaxations will be given as follows as per category.

Category

Relaxation

SC/ST/ J & K residents in between 1st Jan 1980 to 31st Dec 1989.

5 years

OBC

3 years

Defense service personals disabled during hostilities

Up to 3 years

Orthopedically disabled/ Hearing Impairment/ Blind

Up to 10 years.

Ex-serviceman including commissioned officer/ECO/SSCOs who have served the military for 5 years as on 1st August 2017 and released or their service period has been extended and are eligible to apply for civil employment

Up to 5 years

Number of Attempts

General category candidate has a maximum of 6 attempts allowable (9 attempts for OBC-NCL/General PH) to appear for UPSC Civil Services exam.

No limits on attempts exist in the case of SC/ST category. However, for PH candidates, limits are corresponding to their respective caste.

Appearing to attempt one of the papers in the preliminary examination is counted as an attempt, including disqualification/ cancellation of candidature. However, applying to sit the exam but failing to attend is not counted as an attempt.

Already serving Candidates

Candidates currently serving as an IAS/IFS officer to Govt. of India are not eligible to appear for the UPSC Civil Services exam 2018.

In order to begin the part I of UPSC civil service exam 2018 registration, candidates have to follow the official link and click on the link below the column “Part I registration”. A set of instructions were displayed on the screen, upon reading which, the candidate had to click on the “Yes button” below the screen. This would have taken you to the registration form for UPSC civil services exam 2018.

The candidate then had to fill in the corresponding fields and click on “Continue” to proceed further. At the next step, the candidate was asked to claim age relaxation (if applicable). Further, the candidate had to click on the “Continue” button to proceed.

At this stage, the candidate was asked to fill in his/her graduation details such percentage scored/CGPA, previous attempts at UPSC IAS exam and details regarding UPSC IAS main exam and Indian Forest Service Exam. After entering the requisite details, he had to click on the “Continue” button to move further.

After going through all the above steps, the candidates were presented with a declaration box. After checking the check box, the candidates now had to press the “Submit” button to initiate the submission of Part I of the form.

Part II Registration

The part II of the registration process mainly had 3 steps – Application fee payment (if any), Documents uploading and choosing the exam center for the same.

Candidates paying through the “cash mode” had to enter the transaction ID, as provided by the bank, in Part II of the UPSC IAS exam application form to complete the registration process.

It was not required of the candidates to send anything to the UPSC office.

Civil Services Exam 2018 Admit Card

The admit cards for UPSC Civil Services Exam 2018 (Prelims) will be issued online on the UPSC official website, around May 2018.

Civil Services Exam 2018 Results

The results of UPSC Civil Services Exam 2018 will be available on the official UPSC website.

The UPSC Civil Services Exam 2018 (Prelims) results will be available in August or September 2018.

The UPSC Civil Services Exam 2018 (Main) results will be available in January or February 2019.

The final consolidated results and merit list will be available in June or July 2019.